Hame and trace connector.



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

XVILLIAM G. BUNKER, OF IOR'IAGE,l VISCONSIN.

HAME AND TRACE CONNECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,843, dated Mayl, 1900. Application filed December. 9, 1899. Serial No. 739,795. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. BUNKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portage, in the county of Columbia and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Haine and Trace Connections, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to hame and trace connections. Its object is to provide an improved connect-or between the staple of the hame and the trace-tug.

It consists of a clip having jaws of unequal length, one for engaging or connecting the clip to the staple of the hame and the other for connecting it with the trace-tug, in com'- bination with an opposite side plate hinged to thelonger end of the clip and trace-tu g, and with its free end of the requisite thickness to interpose a support between the opposite sides of the hooked end of the clip and of the requisite length to form a stop to the too-free movement of the connector on the haine-staple when in position.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my hame and trace connector attached. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing it detached and with its side plate turned up. Fig. 3 is a crossseetion of the entire device.

All of the parts are made of metal, preferably of malleable iron.

A represents a portion of a haine with its staple B; C, a bent 'liat clip, with jaws ci and b of unequal length; D, a hinged side plate; E,

a trace-tug; c, a pintle, and e and f rivets.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the figures.

The clip C is made of a iiat piece corresponding in width with the space between the legs of the hame-staple B, with its jaws ci and b of unequal length, the shorter, b, forming a hook, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the longer, a, of the requisite length to connect by pintle c with the trace-tug E and opposite hinged side plate D. This hinged side plate is of the requisite length to turn its free end under the end of the short jaw of the clip, as shown in Fig. 3, and has a sufficient portion of its free end formed or bent at right angles to its length to interpose when in position a sup-V port or filling between the jawsof the clip and also a stop to prevent the too-free movement of the connector on the staple of the llame, as shown in the same figure. The clip, hinged side plate, and trace tug are provided With corresponding holes h for the insertion of a pintle c and rivets e and f.

My device thus constructed is applied by turning up the hinged side plate D, as shown in Fig. 2, and then hooking the clip C to the staple B of the hame, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, then turning the side plate back with its free end between the jaws of the clip, as

shownin Fig. 3, and securing it with rivets;`

C and plate D, as herein shown and dek scribed.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence ot' two witnesses.

IVILLIAM G. BUN KEF..

1Witnesses:

J. E. WELLS, F. P. DEINKEP.. 

